6.6. — 29.6.2025

Stardust is trying really hard to stay put, but pieces of it fly here, fly there. And then, for some reason, ants are on top of each other and we cannot understand what it means. We’re scared. They say being able to give birth to large heads is a superpower of a human being. These large heads are brought together and peer pressure becomes overwhelming.

Here the heads are tiny. The unruly characters are expressing themselves with their limbs rather than their faces. The stroke is raw, organic and unbalanced, just like how the world appears to be. Pink is innocent and pussy. The materials draw you in. By undressing the characters the made up division between humans and animals is being distorted.

The exhibition at Forum Box features a flame braider, a bed-wetter and a karaoke collapse. There is a devouring storm among the mouline threads, sequin and glass beads.

Ninni Luhtasaari (b. 1987) works with embroidered contemporary textile art and ceramic fountain sculptures. The Tampere-based artist has exhibited in multiple solo and group shows. Her works are in private collections around the world and in the collections of the Finnish museum of modern art Kiasma, Tampere Art Museum, Kuopio Art Museum, Oulu Art museum and Helsinki Art Museum (HAM). During the year 2023 she finished her second public art commission, a ceramic relief installation for a school building in
Kangasala/Tampere.

Currently she is working on a new public fountain sculpture for the city of Helsinki. Her long term dream is to create a contemporary art water park for the public.